DIY Dress Clothes
Last week, I mentioned that I made an awesome dress shirt (aka painted onsie) for Sweet Pea. Honestly, finding dress clothes for an almost 3 month old still in newborn sizes is a bit of a challenge, so I naturally thought “why not make my own?”
I had read of other’s using freezer paper to make stencils for clothing and figured I would give it a try. Here is the super easy and fairly quick tutorial:
First, I gathered my supplies: A $2 white onsie from Walmart, freezer paper, black and white puffy paint, sponge brushes, exacto knife and an iron. After a 10 second search on the internet for clip art neck ties, I found one that I liked and printed it out. You may need to resize your image to fit on your clothing item. Then I cut out my clip art and traced it onto the freezer paper. Using an exacto knife, I carefully cut along my tracing to make my stencil. (Sorry, I neglected to take pics of the stuff up to this point, but you get the point.)
Once the iron was ready, I placed my freezer paper stencil on the onsie and ironed it on with the wax side down. This made it stick to the fabric and kept my paint from bleeding beyond the boarders of the stencil. (Don’t forget to place something underneath your fabric so that the paint does not bleed through.)
With the sponge brush, I dabbed on the black puffy paint in a thin layer over the exposed area of the fabric to fill in the stencil.
I waited for that to dry and then mixed some white paint with the black to create a shade of gray. My intentions were for Sweet Pea to some what match his sister, so gray polka dots were a must. (You know that all kids love when their parents dress them in matching outfits, right?!) Using the end of my sponge brush, I carefully dotted the spots in place.
After about 2 hours, the paint was completely dry and I carefully peeled of the stencil to reveal my little old man’s super cute dress shirt and tie. I swear he looks like he has a comb over in this photo!
And the siblings didn’t look too matchy matchy. However, they do both look incredibly goofy. I can’t figure out if he is trying to copy her silliness or if that is a slight sign of fear in his eyes!
